A proposed southern corridor gas route will not use any Iranian natural gas in the near future due to a row over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, according to a top U.S. official. "There will be a southern corridor, but Iranian gas will not be part of it," Ambassador Richard Morningstar, special envoy of the U.S. Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy, said during the Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum in Istanbul on Thursday.

Nobody has suggested that the emergence of LNG as a marine fuel will be a rapid procedure, although in certain areas like the Norwegian coast, political will and the availability of LNG in close proximity

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